Plotnitsky: I have a lot of questions about our game, but I’ve run out of answers

Captain withVolleyball Team of Ukraine Oleg Plotnitsky commented on the defeat from the national team of Bulgaria on European Championship 2023.

“What happened? If you’re talking about the game, I don’t know, honestly. I don’t have an answer, I’ve already run out of answers. I have a ton of questions, but I’ve run out of answers.”

“We have some kind of garbage happening on the site, it’s not clear why. We are afraid of something, we are clamped somewhere, we do not take responsibility. This is the biggest problem that we do not take responsibility. Each of us must take responsibility, and then something can work out.

“This is not a disaster. On the one hand, this is normal. Let’s do it. Until 2016, volleyball in our country was not something that no one knew, no one even mentioned. In 2017, they already started talking after the Golden Euroleague, which we won. After Euro 2019, they started writing, they already told people the rules, but they still don’t know the rules, they still don’t know the names.”

“Therefore, there is no catastrophe. We have to solve this somehow. It seems to me that you just need to turn off a bit and get high in the game. Because we, like, get high in the first game, champions. We can be congratulated. I think if there were medals, we would have been awarded them after three games in the first game.

“Will we get high in the next two matches? Need, Need. After the second game, I said that you need to go to church, as Misha Kopolovets said. You have to deal with yourself and everything a little.”

Ukraine suffered the third defeat and with 1 point occupies the last place in group B. Previously, Ugis Krastins’ team lost to Slovenia (1:3) and Croatia (2:3).

In the group round, Ukraine will have to play two more matches: with Finland (September 4) and Spain (September 5). The four best teams from the group will advance to the playoffs of the European Championship.